Ship the portfolio piece.
A completed room lives in your portfolio the length of a JPEG. A walkable tour of that same room is a working demonstration for the next client. VOLUME turns your Saturday phone walk into a portfolio artifact you can share on any surface.
Photos flatten dimension and material.
Your best work is spatial — light, sight lines, how the eye moves. Static photos crop that out. A walkable tour preserves the design decision.
Bringing prospective clients on site is a scheduling problem.
Owners live in the space you designed. VOLUME lets you show it as a walkable tour without disturbing them, and without a professional photographer visit.
Renderings are speculation. Post-install walks are proof.
The distance between the render and the built room is where trust lives. A walkable post-install artifact closes that distance faster than any before/after JPEG.
Ship the portfolio piece. Not just the photo.
Portfolio pieces that work in a browser.
Send prospective clients the tour URL. They walk your last project on their phone during the discovery call. Sales cycle collapses.
One .ply file per project — yours forever.
Every tour is downloadable. Portfolio owner-ship remains yours, hosted with us or ported anywhere. No walled garden.
Fits event + venue photography too.
Wedding venues, event spaces, corporate showrooms. Same $79. One tour per space; refresh when the room resets.
Complete the project — final furnishings, styling, lighting.
Two-minute walk on your phone at the reveal. Landscape, lights on.
Upload, wait 20 min, send the URL to the client.
Embed on your studio site under a 'walkable projects' tab.
Same listing. Four different pitches to the buyer.
We built VOLUME because every current option asks the seller to compromise on one of cost, speed, or walkability. This is the row-by-row comparison honest agents ask us for.
| Feature | VOLUME | Matterport | 360° photos | Still photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per listing | $79 one-time | $300–$800 shoot + $75/mo | ~$150–$250 shoot | $150–$400 shoot |
| Time to shipped tour | ~20 min | Same-day scan + 24 hr | Same-day | Same-day |
| Equipment needed | Any phone | Pro camera + tripod | 360 camera | DSLR |
| Interactive walkable 3D | Yes — Gaussian splat | Yes — dollhouse | Panorama only | Static |
| Mobile view without app | Yes | Slow | Yes | Yes |
| Embed on your own domain | Yes — one line of HTML | Team plan+ | Yes | Yes |
| You own the file forever | Yes — download .ply | Hosted only | Depends | Yes |
| SEO — indexable public URL | Yes — per-tour /t/[slug] | Frames + JS wall | Frames | Yes |
| Analytics per tour | Views · dwell · region · leads | Basic | None | None |
| Failed capture = free retry | Yes — never charged on failure | You paid the shoot | Reshoot | Reshoot |
- VOLUME$79 one-time
- Matterport$300–$800 shoot + $75/mo
- 360° photos~$150–$250 shoot
- Still photos$150–$400 shoot
- VOLUME~20 min
- MatterportSame-day scan + 24 hr
- 360° photosSame-day
- Still photosSame-day
- VOLUMEAny phone
- MatterportPro camera + tripod
- 360° photos360 camera
- Still photosDSLR
- VOLUMEYes — Gaussian splat
- MatterportYes — dollhouse
- 360° photosPanorama only
- Still photosStatic
- VOLUMEYes
- MatterportSlow
- 360° photosYes
- Still photosYes
- VOLUMEYes — one line of HTML
- MatterportTeam plan+
- 360° photosYes
- Still photosYes
- VOLUMEYes — download .ply
- MatterportHosted only
- 360° photosDepends
- Still photosYes
- VOLUMEYes — per-tour /t/[slug]
- MatterportFrames + JS wall
- 360° photosFrames
- Still photosYes
- VOLUMEViews · dwell · region · leads
- MatterportBasic
- 360° photosNone
- Still photosNone
- VOLUMEYes — never charged on failure
- MatterportYou paid the shoot
- 360° photosReshoot
- Still photosReshoot
Comparison based on public list prices at time of writing. Matterport and 360-camera setups still have real strengths for some verticals — the point isn't to nuke them; it's to help you pick right per listing.
What does it cost you not to switch?
Adjust the slider to your yearly listing volume. Numbers update live. Assumes traditional photography at $350 a listing (photog + drone + editing round-trip) and VOLUME at $79 one-off.
Showing lift derived from public 3D-listing analytics (Zillow / Redfin brokerage reports). Conservative 2× multiplier used. Real number is usually higher.
How does the resolution compare to a photo shoot?
Different medium. VOLUME captures spatial fidelity — you can walk through a corner and see how a sight line resolves. Traditional photography captures material fidelity in a single frame. Most studios run both.Can we hide the VOLUME branding on client-facing embeds?
Team plan ($299/mo) lets you drop the watermark on embedded tours. All other plans keep a subtle 'Made with VOLUME' chip.
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